Conyers on Jobs: "We've Had It." Lays Out Obama, Calls for Protest at White House With Representative John Conyers, Founding Member and Dean of the Congressional Black Caucus
Michiganâs U.S. Representative John Conyers brings us back to fundamentals, The real crisis in this country is that of unemployment, the recession and cutbacks. Itâs time to explode the myth that budget deficits are the imminent danger that pervades the rhetoric of Washington from Obama to the Tea Partyers. The cure is to educate and pressure them by mobilizations and demonstrations to do the right thing. *********** The American Dream is Dying With Heather McGhee,Director of Demos' Washington office. Amongst her many writings, she is the co-author of a chapter on retirement insecurity in the book Inequality Matters: The Growing Economic Divide in America and its Poisonous Consequences
Heather McGhee speaks to youth, at a national teach-in, with alarm that they face potentially less opportunity and greater wealth deprivation than their parents and the imperative for them to organize, organize, organize for their interests.
Produced by Ken Nash and Mimi Rosenberg
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